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Russian strategic culture after the Cold War: understanding Russia’s changing Foreign Policy towards Syria from a strategic subculture perspective, 1986-2016 (2019)
Thesis
Nurberdiyev, S. (2019). Russian strategic culture after the Cold War: understanding Russia’s changing Foreign Policy towards Syria from a strategic subculture perspective, 1986-2016. (Thesis). Keele University

By developing a rigorous analytical framework, built on strategic subculture assumptions, this thesis contributes to the operationalization of strategic culture as an analytic perspective that can explain strategic behaviour. The thesis offers a taxo... Read More about Russian strategic culture after the Cold War: understanding Russia’s changing Foreign Policy towards Syria from a strategic subculture perspective, 1986-2016.

What is wrong with silence in intercultural classrooms? An insight into international students’ integration at a UK university (2019)
Journal Article
WANG, S., & Moskal, M. What is wrong with silence in intercultural classrooms? An insight into international students’ integration at a UK university. Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 11(Winter), 52-58. https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v11iwinter.1087

Recent research has reported a common tendency for international students to be silent in the classroom, identifying language competence and cultural difference as main barriers to participation. However, insights into the integration of internationa... Read More about What is wrong with silence in intercultural classrooms? An insight into international students’ integration at a UK university.

What hampers ‘political’ action in environmental alternative action organizations? Exploring the scope for strategic agency under post-political conditions (2019)
Journal Article
Doherty, & Catney. (2019). What hampers ‘political’ action in environmental alternative action organizations? Exploring the scope for strategic agency under post-political conditions. Social Movement Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2019.1708311

The proliferation of environmental alternative action organization (EAAOs) is a defining feature of present-day environmentalism. The literature on sustainable materialism has celebrated this as an appropriate, effective, and above all, political str... Read More about What hampers ‘political’ action in environmental alternative action organizations? Exploring the scope for strategic agency under post-political conditions.

Is visual motivation for cleaning surfaces in the kitchen consistent with a hygienically clean environment? (2019)
Journal Article
Martens. (2020). Is visual motivation for cleaning surfaces in the kitchen consistent with a hygienically clean environment?. Food Control, 111, Article 107077. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2019.107077

Cleaning is a method at the disposal of domestic cooks for curtailing the dispersal of foodborne pathogens in the process of preparing food. The observation of visible dirt/soil ‘in the wrong place’ operates as one of the stimuli for action. This pap... Read More about Is visual motivation for cleaning surfaces in the kitchen consistent with a hygienically clean environment?.

‘Fuck It, Shit Happens (FISH)’: a social generations approach to understanding young people’s imaginings of life after school in 2016–2017 (2019)
Journal Article
Alexander, P., Loewenthal, J., & Butt, G. (2020). ‘Fuck It, Shit Happens (FISH)’: a social generations approach to understanding young people’s imaginings of life after school in 2016–2017. Journal of Youth Studies, 23(1), 109-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2019.1704406

This article uses a social generations approach to explore the lives of young people transitioning to life after schooling. Drawing on ethnographic research in England during the geopolitical uncertainty of 2016–2017, we track the trajectories and na... Read More about ‘Fuck It, Shit Happens (FISH)’: a social generations approach to understanding young people’s imaginings of life after school in 2016–2017.

‘Diaspora at Home’: Class and Politics in the Navigation of Hong Kong Students in Mainland China’s Universities (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). ‘Diaspora at Home’: Class and Politics in the Navigation of Hong Kong Students in Mainland China’s Universities. International Studies in Sociology of Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2019.1700821

This paper draws on ‘diaspora at home’, a concept that encapsulates the unique dynamics between Hong Kong and mainland China, as an analytical tool to explore the cross-border experiences of 23 Hong Kong students at 11 universities in mainland China.... Read More about ‘Diaspora at Home’: Class and Politics in the Navigation of Hong Kong Students in Mainland China’s Universities.

Everyday justice at the courthouse? Governing lay participation in Argentina's criminal trials (2019)
Book Chapter
Amietta. (2019). Everyday justice at the courthouse? Governing lay participation in Argentina's criminal trials. In Everyday Justice Law, Ethnography, Injustice (161 - 181). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108763530.010

Lay participation in state judicial procedures has been championed, in Argentina and elsewhere, as embodying new ways of making justice – imbued with the experiences and sentiments of ordinary people and carrying into courthouses the quotidien’s roma... Read More about Everyday justice at the courthouse? Governing lay participation in Argentina's criminal trials.

Revisiting ‘Eating Out’: Understanding 20 years of change in the practice in three English cities (2019)
Book Chapter
Martens. (2019). Revisiting ‘Eating Out’: Understanding 20 years of change in the practice in three English cities. In What is Food?: Researching a topic with many meanings (11-30)

In 2015 and 2016, we took what is a rare opportunity in the social sciences to re-visit the study ‘Eating Out’, which was first conducted in 1995 (Warde and Martens, 2000). This study explored from the point of view of diners the increasingly popular... Read More about Revisiting ‘Eating Out’: Understanding 20 years of change in the practice in three English cities.

A democratic bearing: Admirable citizens, uneven injustice, and critical theory: Stephen K. White Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017, xxiv+217pp., ISBN: 978-1-107-16847-3 (2019)
Journal Article
Hammond, M. (2021). A democratic bearing: Admirable citizens, uneven injustice, and critical theory: Stephen K. White Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017, xxiv+217pp., ISBN: 978-1-107-16847-3. Contemporary Political Theory, 20(S2), 67-70. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-019-00374-4

Critical theory is needed in the world today. As populists gain support across Western societies, and the disenchanted turn against scapegoated ‘others’ to voice their frustration, the future of democracy is at stake. Stephen K. White gives us a powe... Read More about A democratic bearing: Admirable citizens, uneven injustice, and critical theory: Stephen K. White Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017, xxiv+217pp., ISBN: 978-1-107-16847-3.

Being a Gerontologist: intersections between the professional and the personal in the Ageing of British Gerontology project (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Being a Gerontologist: intersections between the professional and the personal in the Ageing of British Gerontology project. Ageing and society, 1051-1071. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X1900151X

Despite the growth of cultural gerontology this century, relatively few gerontologists have interrogated their own experiences of ageing through a critical reflexive lens. This paper seeks to address this lack of attention by discussing some findings... Read More about Being a Gerontologist: intersections between the professional and the personal in the Ageing of British Gerontology project.